BRUSSELS. Sept 3 (Interfax) - OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatovic says she is appalled by the death of Russian photojournalist Andrei Stenin in eastern Ukraine and calls for a speedy investigation into it.
"Stenin's death is a gruesome reminder of the ongoing and alarming situation concerning journalists' safety in the conflict in eastern Ukraine," Mijatovic said in a statement available on the OSCE website on Wednesday.
"I call on Ukrainian authorities to investigate all killings and attacks on members of the media in Ukraine, and to do so swiftly and thoroughly," Mijatovic said.
Russian Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin had told Interfax earlier on Wednesday that Stenin, a photojournalist from the government-financed news agency Rossiya Segodnya, had been killed when Ukrainian government forces shelled an automobile convoy carrying refugees on the Snizhne-Dmytrivka motor road in south-eastern Ukraine.
Stenin went missing in early August and his fate had been unknown until recently.